• elephantium@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Eh, Minneapolis gets cold, but it doesn’t quite get that cold. The record low was -34 degrees F (-37C). We do regularly hit -20F, but we haven’t hit -30 since 1996.

    Nitpicking aside, I agree that the winters can get brutal.

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      20 hours ago

      I remember it got cold enough during that winter polar vortex thing that the power company was asking people to keep their homes at like 60 so that we didn’t overload the power grid and gas pressure. I want to say that was like 2016 or something when I used to live there.

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        13 hours ago

        Did you live in Minneapolis or a suburb?

        Winter of 2013-2014 was pretty brutal. I’m not sure about 16-17 though.

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          4 hours ago

          I lived in southeast Minneapolis right near the U of M. I wasn’t there for the winter of 2013-2014 as I originally came in October of 2014 and lived there until 2019.

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        18 hours ago

        Weak ass infrastructure. I live in an area that gets to be -50 (C but at that point does not really matter) almost every year and don’t have those sort of issues. (well yet as we seem to be poisoned by your stupid us thinking of cut every corner)